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International Development Abstracts ' IDA was started in 1982 in collaboration with the Centre for Development Studies University College of Swansea, UK. In 1988 Elsevier Science Publishers took over the task and have expanded it.
IDA is now published four times a year with approximately 1000 abstracts per issue from 500 to 600 journals, plus books, conference proceedings,reports, and theses. Subscribers are mainly libraries, government institutions, universities, and researchers.
IDA aims to provide comprehensive coverage of the current development literature for newly-industrialized countries, petroleum-exporting countries middle-income countries, an] the developing world. IDA is an important information source to keep academics, librarians, industries, consultancies and government departments abreast of the latest development issues.
It gives full bibliographical details of publications covered, an informative abstract (written by the author, if possible), and, for articles in languages other than English, the original language title and English translation are given.
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